Incidents of Bias in College Classrooms: Instructor and Student Perceptions

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 219-231

  Boysen, Guy A ^a   Vogel, David L ^b   Cope, Marissa A ^c   Hubbard, Asale ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c StudentVoice   (United States)

Author keywords

college students; education; prejudice; teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149159629     PISSN: 19388926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017538     Document Type: Article

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